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ESSEX 



INCORPORATED JUNE 11, 1821. 



Your petitioners therefore pray, that they may, lor the more 
orderly conducting of their affairs, be made a corporation, with 
all necessary powers for carrying into effect the design of their 
association ; and as in duty bound will ever pray, 

EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKE, 
JOSEPH STORY, 
JOHN PRINCE, 
BENJAMIN PICKMAN, 
JACOB ASHTON, 
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, 
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, 
JOHN PICKERING, 
ICHABOD TUCKER, 
JOHN S. APPLETON, 
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, 
GEORGE CLEVELAND, 
BENJAMIN MERRILL, 
FREDERIC HOWES, 
THOMAS CARLILE, 
JOHN BRAZER, 
DANIEL A. WHITE, 
JOHN GLEN KING, 
GIDEON BARSTOW, 
WILLIAM GIBBS, 
CHARLES C. CLARKE, 
JOSEPH A. PEABODY, 
THOMAS P. BANCROFT, 
BENJAMIN R NICHOLS, 
STEPHEN WHITE and 
GEORGE A. WARD 
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

TO IWCORPOBATE THE 

ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



Sect. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 
same, That Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem, in the county 
of Essex, doctor of medicine, and such other persons as have 
associated or may hereafter associate themselves with him for 
the purpose of collecting and preserving materials for the civil 
and natural history of the said county of Essex, be, and they 
hereby are, made a body corporate and politic by the name of 
the Essex Historical Society ; and by that name they and 
their successors may sue and be sued, and shall be capable in 
law to take and hold in fee simple, or otherwise, lands, tene- 
ments, rents, and hereditaments, not exceeding in the whole the 
yearly value of two thousand dollars, exclusive of the building 
or buildings which may be actually occupied for the purposes 
of the said corporation ; and they shall also be capable in law 
to take, receive, and hold personal estate, to an amount, the 
yearly value of which shall not exceed the smn of two thousand 
dollars, exclusive of the books, papers, memorials, and other 
articles composing the library and cabinet of the said corpora- 
tion ; and they shall also have power to sell, demise, exchange, 
or otherwise dispose of, all or any part of their lands, tenements, 
rents, hereditaments, and other property aforesaid, for the bene- 
fit of the said corporation ; and shall also have a common seal, 



which they may break, alter, and renew at their pleasure ;■ and 
shall also have power to make by-laws, with suitable penalties, 
and not repugnant to the laws of this commonwealth. 

Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation 
shall have power, from time to time, as they may think fit, to 
elect a president and such other officers as they shall judge 
necessary ; and at their first meeting they may agree upon the 
manner of calling future meetings, and proceed to execute all 
or any of the powers vested in them by this act. 

Sect. 3. Be it further enacted. That the library and cab- 
inet of the said corporation shall be kept in the town of Saleia 
aforesaid. 

Sect. 4. Be it further enacted. That the said Edward Au- 
gustus Holyoke be and hereby is authorized to notify the said 
first meeting of the said corporation by an advertisement thereof 
under liis hand for seven days before such meeting, in anjr 
ne^vspaper printed in Salem aforesaid. 

Approved hy the Governor i June 11, 183i. 



CONSTITUTION 



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Art. I. The Society shall be called The Essex Historical 
Society, and shall consist of resident and honorary members, 
the former of whom shall be persons residing within the county 
of Essex. 

Art. II. The object of the society shall be, to procure and 
preserve whatever relates to the topography, antiquities, and 
natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of the county of Essex. 

Art. III. The officers of the society shall be a president, a 
vice president, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, 
a treasurer, a librarian and cabinet-keeper, and nine trustees, of 
which the president and vice president shall ex officio be two ; and 
all the officers shall be chosen by ballot, at the annual meeting of 
the society, on the sixth day of September. 

Art. IV. It shall be the duty of the trustees to receive do- 
nations, and to manage and superintend all the concerns of the 
society ; they shall hold meetings as often as occasion shall re- 
quire, and at the annual meeting on the sixth day of September 
they shall make a report in writing of the transactions of the 
preceding year. 

Art. V. Four meetings of the society shall be held at Salem 
in every year ; the first meeting, at which the officers shall be 
chosen, shall be on the sixth day of September, being the day of 
the landing of Gov. Endicott at Salem, A. D. 1628 ; provided 
Iwwever, that when that day shall happen on Sunday, the meet- 



6 

ing shall be holden on the Tuesday following ; the other meet- 
ings on the first Tuesdays of December, March and June ; ajid 
special meetings may be called at the same place by the Presi- 
dent, or in his absence the Vice President, on the application of 
the trustees, by publishing a notification in some newspaper 
printed in Salem. The President, and in his absence the Vice 
President, shall preside at all meetings. 

Art. VI. Each resident member shall, upon his admission, 
pay the sum of ten dollars. 

Art. VII. The members of the society shall be chosen by 
ballot, at a stated meeting of the society ; but no person shall 
be admitted as a member, unless he has been nominated at 
some stated meeting precedmg that at which the vote shall be 
taken for his admission. 

Art. VIII. Five members shall be a quorum for holding 
my meeting. 



CIRCULAR. 



The object of the Essex Historical Society is, as stated in the 
2d article of the constitution, " to procure and preserve what- 
ever relates to the topography, antiquities, and natural, civil, 
and ecclesiastical history of the county of Essex." Members 
of the society, and other persons who feel a desire to promote 
these interesting and important purposes, will gratify the society 
by aiding in collections, for its use, of the following : 

1. Topographical sketches of the towns and pai'ishes Avhere 
they reside, or with which they are particidarly acquainted ; 
including an account of the soil, agriculture, manufactures, 
commerce, remarkable buildings, natural curiosities, and statis- 
tics of such places. 

2. Sketches of the history, civil and ecclesiastical, of such 
towns and parishes, and as far as may be with minute refer- 
ences to dates, and biographical notices of the ministers, 
lawyers, physicians, and other most distinguished men, who 
were born or have resided therein. 

3. Oi-iginal letters, documents, and papers illustrating any 
of these subjects, particularly such as were written by distin- 
guished men at home or abroad, which shew the private habits, 
manners or pursuits of our ancestors, or are connected with the 
public history of this county, or of this commonwealth. 

4. Portraits of distinguished persons who were born or have 
resided in this county, or were connected with the history of 
the commonwealth, particularly the portraits of our ancestors- 
and of distinguished persons in England, of the same age. 



5. Sermons, orations, occasional discourses and addresses, 
books and pamphlets, printed in the commonwealth, and espe* 
cially such as have been written by persons born or residing 
within the commonwealth. 

6. Besides these the society will receive donations of any 
other books, pamphlets, portraits, manuscripts, and printed 
documents, with which any gentleman may please to favor 
them ; and in all cases, unless otherwise requested, the donor's 
name will be entered in the records of the donations of th« 
society. 

Salcmy June 27, 1821. 



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